However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.